WHAT IT IS: Led by multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/producer Lynn Gunn, American rock band PVRIS makes music characterized by honesty, passion and deeply held personal conviction. Sole architect Gunn, alongside guitarist Alex Babinski and bassist/keyboardist Brian MacDonald, step into a new chapter as they recently inked a pub deal with Primary Wave and are gearing up for the release of their third LP, Use Me, featuring glitchy beat-craft, airy guitars and spellbinding vocals. Gunn has dropped two tracks from the project, “Good to Be Alive” and “Dead Weight,” and will put out the album’s opening track, “Gimme a Minute,” on 5/10.
ALBUM: Use Me
RELEASE DATE: 7/10
SINGLE: “Gimme a Minute”
TV: Performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live
LIVE: Performed at Coachella, Firefly, Lollapalooza, Riot Fest, Boston Calling, Reading & Leeds, more; toured with Fall Out Boy, Muse, 30 Seconds to Mars; fall arena tour supporting Halsey and blackbear; headlining U.S. and European/U.K. tour 2020-2021
INTERNET: 1.2m+ monthly Spotify listeners; dropped unofficial Machine Gun Kelly quarantine collab, +5m views in first few days; #1 trending video on YouTube; 12k+ preorders on LP
RADIO: Seven BBC Radio 1 singles; new material impacting fall 2020
PRESS: New York Times, Rolling Stone, Medium, V Magazine, Alt Press, Wonderland, Rock Sound (cover + 18-page spread), more
BOOKING: Mike Marquis & Jamilaâ€¨Lyndon (Paradigm, North America); Mark Ngui (CAA, rest of world)
PUBLISHING: Primary Wave
MANAGEMENT: Nathan James